Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility – Iowa

Know someone incarcerated at Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility? Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility is a state correctional institution in the Iowa state prison system, which is part of the Iowa Department of Corrections. This guide tells you info about everything you might want to know about Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility,like: Find an inmate at Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. Visitation policies and procedures. The prisons’s phone number and address. Mailing or sending money to an inmate. And much much more…

General Prison Information

Contact Information

Here you will find the street address and mailing address for Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. Use the mailing address if you are sending a package or letter to an inmate there, and be sure to use the physical address if you want to know the location of the facility.

Mailing Address

Make sure to also read the Inmate Mail and Package Procedures information on this page if you are going to send a letter or package to a prisoner to learn how to correctly address the letter or package, and follow the right protocol for mailing a letter or package. If you don’t use the correct steps, the letter or package could not get to the inmate.

Street Address / Prison Location

Address

Phone Number and Fax Number

Map and Directions

Use this address if you plan to visit a prisoner. You should read the Inmate Visitation Procedures and Inmate Visitation Schedule headings further down on this page if you are going to visit an inmate at Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility.

Directions

Phone Number

State prison inmates don’t have telephones, so you won’t be able to call prisoners, however, there are some times when it may be useful to have the phone number to the facility.

(319) 385-9511

Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility prisoners may be able to make calls with:

Calling Cards

Collect Calls

Dedicated Phone Line

Prison Calling Plan

Fax Number

Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility prisoners don’t have fax machines, so you won’t be able to send a fax to an inmate, but there are some times when it is useful to have the fax machine number to the prison.

Email Address

This email address is the primary email address for Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. You can’t contact prisoners using this address. If you want to email a prisoner, go to the Inmate Email heading below.

Inmate and Staff Statistics

Inmate Email

In order to send email to a prisoner you must follow an exact process to make sure that the email letter is received by the prisoner.

Inmate Internet Access

Inmates are not permitted to access the internet.

Inmate Mail and Package Procedures

There are certain rules that are necessary to follow when sending a package or letter to a state prison inmate. If you don’t follow these rules then the letters and packages might not make it there.

Before you send a package or letter, be sure to read the information below:

Mail Monitoring

Correctional facility employees will open and inspect all received general mail. Received general mail can be read as frequently as deemed necessary to ensure security and safety or monitor a particular problem having to do with a certain inmate.

How to Address a Letter to an Inmate

This is the format for how you have to address a package or letter to an inmate at Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility:

Inmate Money

Every state correctional institution has a Commissary that serves to provide prisoners a bank type account for prisoner funds and for buying items not issued regularly by the prison.

How to Send an Inmate Money

Friends, family, or other people may deposit money to prisoner’s accounts by sending it by the U.S. Postal Service and Western Union.

Via U.S. Postal Service: An inmate’s family and friends can choose to send inmates funds in the mail and have to send it to the address below and do so in accordance with the rules provided below:

The funds must be a money order that is made out to the inmate’s full committed name and complete eight-digit register number. You are advised to use a postal money order, since all non-postal money orders that are processed through the National Lockbox will be kept for a 15-day hold, and during this hold period the inmate will not get the depsoit. The Bureau of Prisons will return to the sender funds that don’t have correct inmate info but only if the envelope it was sent it has an adequate return address. Checks and cash can’t be deposited so don’t send cash or checks.

Inmate Locator

Prisoners are often changed to various correctional facilities throughout Iowa, so you might need to find where an inmate is located using the inmate locator. Follow the link below to locate an Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility inmate.Inmate Search

Inmate Visitation

Before you go to visit an inmate at Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility, make sure you know this information:

Visitation Schedule

Visitation Rules

Visitation Application

Inmate Visitation Schedule

Inmate Visitor Procedures

Each correctional facility in Iowa has their own policies for prison visits and these rules change often. The information below may be different when you are reading this, so make sure to also go to Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility’s site to read the latest visitation procedures.

Visitation Sign-In and Check-In

The front entrance officer ensures all visitors sign the inmate visitors log when entering the facility and upon exiting.

Identification Required

Picture ID of all visitors will be required. Acceptable forms of ID are Driver’s License and Social Security Card; but, a state picture ID is acceptable.

For all of the things shown below, read the official correctional facility website as this information is updated all the time:

Visitation Rules

Visitation Dress Code

Things You Can and Cannot Take to Visitation

Special Rules For Childred, Special Visits, Pastoral or Attorney Visits

Website

Victim Resources

Important Note: If you, or someone you know, are in immediate danger, call 911.

Victim’s Rights

The Victim Rights Act grants victims the following rights:

You have the right to protection from the accused.

You have the right to notification.

You have the right to attend proceedings.

You have the right to speak at criminal justice proceedings.

You have the right to consult with the prosecuting attorney.

You have the right to restitution.

You have the right to a speedy trial.

You have the right to be treated with fairness, dignity and respect.

The definition of victim includes:

Spouses and children of all victims.

Parents and guardians of minor victims.

Parents, guardians and siblings of mentally or physically incapacitated victims or victims of homicide.

Foster parents or other caregivers, under certain circumstances.

There are a number of services and programs designed to help victims and their families. You can find out about these services by contacting the courthouse, or local law enforcement agency.

Victim Notification

The Department of Justice Victim Notification System (VNS) is a system that provides victims with information pertaining to their case and/or any defendants in the case. You will receive a Victim Identification Number (VIN) and a Personal Identification Number (PIN) that will allow you to access VNS via the internet or by phone. Here, you will find information about future court hearings, historical court events, and detailed information about the defendant. This will include criminal charges filed, the outcome of charges, sentence imposed, custody location, projected release date and any other release information. The VNS website is updated daily. You will also receive any ongoing information by mail or email.

Have you, a family member or friend ever used the Victim Notification System? If so, was it effective? Did you get the information in a timely manner? Was the system difficult to use? We would like to hear from you, so please post any comments here.

Comments

I spent 2 yrs. there. There conditions are horrible. In the mens non-sex offender section, lower floor, pod C. the CO there is a prejudice piece of work. It’s not our fault that his twin brother was caught up in a riot at Anamosa and raped/abused.!!! He hates all prisoners and takes his petty little brain problems out on the inmates every chance he gets.
The winters/summers are terrible. In the winters you freeze because the windows leak so bad the wind just blows right in. We took wet towels and let them freeze to the windows to cover the holes.
I had no problem with the food. The majority of the CO’s were decent hard working people.

I am sorry to hear that it was such a difficult time for you. Our son is there now for using drugs. He also has a disability. I am praying for him and the man that you mentioned who works there to have a change of heart.